Review Article: Refighting the First World War

Richard F. Hamilton and Holger H. Herwig. Decisions for War, 1914–1917. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 266. $60.00 (US), cloth; $17.99 (US), paper; Michael S. Neiberg. Fighting the Great War: A Global History. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xx, 395. $27.95 (US); Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson. The Somme. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. vi, 358. $35.00 (US); David Stevenson. 1914–1918: The History of the First World War. London: Allen Lane, Penguin Books, 2004. Pp. xxii, 728. £25.00.     

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Shylock’s Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe. Bob Reece. The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales. Michael H. Shirley and Todd E. A. Larson, eds. Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth‐ and Twentieth‐Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein. Matthew Stibbe. German Anglophobia and the Great War, 1914–1918. Marjorie Swann. Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England. Ramie Targoff. Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. David Wetzel. A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco‐Prussian War. David Wetzel. A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco‐Prussian War. Lucy E. C. Wooding. Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England. Benjamin Woolley. The Queen’s Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I. General, Comparative, Historiographical Martin Bernal. Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics. Simon A. Cole. Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification. Ian Jackson. The Economic Cold War: America, Britain, and East‐West Trade, 1948–63. Adrienne Mayor. The First Fossil Hunters. Sam Wineburg. Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Ideas in History: Essays Presented to Louis Gottschalk by his former Students. Edited by Richard Herr and Harold T. Parker. Men of Ideas, A Sociologist's View. By Lewis A. Coser. Catholics in Colonial America. By John Tracy Ellis. Toward Lexington: The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution. By John Shy. Naval Documents of the American Revolution, I (1774–1775). Edited by William Bell Clark. Introduction by Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller. Empire and Independence: The International History of the American Revolution. By Richard W. Van Alstyne. [America in Crisis.] A Nation on Trial: America and the War of 1812. By Patrick C. T. White. [America in Crisis.] Horace Mann on the Crisis in Education. Edited with an Introduction by Louis Filler. The Crisis of fhe Union, 1860–1861. Edited by George Harmon Knoles. Agriculture and the Civil War. By Paul W. Gates. [The Impact of the Civil War series.] Hayes of the Twenty-third: The Civil War Volunteer Oficer. By T. Harry Williams. The Climax of Popuhsm: The Election of 1896. By Robert F. Durden. John Muir and the Sierra Club: The Battle for Yosemite. By Holway R. Jones, with a Foreword by Roderick Nash. Negro Mecca: A History of the Negro in New York City, 1865–1920. By Seth M. Scheiner. The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest. By Charles C. Alexander. The High Ministry of Government: The Political Career of Frank Murphy. By Richard D. Lunt. The History of Rocket Technology: Essays on Research, Development, and Utility. Edited with an Introduction by Eugene M. Emme. Education in Renaissance England. By Kenneth Charlton. North Country Life in the Eighteenth Century, Volume II, “Cumberland and Westmoreland 1700–1830”. By Edward Hughes. The Politics of Repeal: A Study in the Relations Between Great Britain and Ireland, 1841-50. By Kevin B. Nowlan. The Critical Years: The Union of British North America, 1857–1873. By W. L. Morton. [The Canadian Centenary Series. A History of Canada, Volume XII.] Urban Civilization in Pre-Crusade Europe: a Study of Organized Town-Life in Northwestern Europe during the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries Based on the Responsa Literature. By Irving A. Agus. The Laws of War in the Late Middle Ages. By M. H. Keen. [Studies in Political History.] The Fall of Constantinople, 1453. By Steven Runciman. History of Modern France, 1715–1962. By Alfred Cobban. The French Revolution, from 1793 to 1799. By Georges Lefebvre. Translated from the French by John Hall Stewart and James Friguglietti. Community of Fate; German-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1922–1928. By Kurt Rosenbaum. South and East Asia Since 1800. By Victor Purcell. The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History, 1789–1801. By Leonard D. White. The Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History, 1801–1829. By Leonard D. White. The Republican Era: A Study in Administrative History, 1869–1901. By Leonard D. White. The Divine Right of Kings. By John Neville Figgis. Introduction by G. R. Elton. The Ageless Chinese, A History. By Dun J. Li. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. A History of Scotland. By J. D. Mackie. The Origins of Modern Consciousness. Edited with an introduction by John Weiss. The English Reform Tradition, 1790–1910. Edited by Sydney W. Jackman. Modern Historical and Social Philosophies (formerly titled Social Philosophies in an Age of Crisis). By Pitirim A. Sorokin. History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark. Edited by Elliott Coues. Fly and Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals. By Ved Mehta. Under Pressure: The Writer in Society, Eastern Europe and the USA. By A. Alvarez. The Evolution of American Foreign Policy. By Dexter Perkins.     

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Book reviews in this article: Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. By Drew Gilpin Faust. Vietnam 1945: The Quest of Power. By David G. Marr. William Cooper's Town: Powers and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic. By Alan Taylor. The Secret World of American Communism. By Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov. Red Scare or Red Menace?: American Communism in the Cold War Era. By John E. Haynes. Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism. By Richard Gid Powers. The Press in the Arab Middle East: A History. By Ami Ayalon. The Oral History and Literature of the Wolof People of Waalo, Northern Senegal: The Master of the Word The State and Its Servants: Administration in Egypt from Ottoman Times to the Present. Edited by Nelly Hanna. Breaking the Chains: Slavery and its Legacy in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony. Edited by Nigel Worden and Clifton Crais. Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. Volume I, Commerce and Compromise, 1820–1850. By John Ashworth. Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch. By Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith. Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870–1920. By Charlotte G. Borst. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies. By Elaine G. Breslaw. The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650–1870. By Richard D. Brown. Roosevelt's Warrior: Harold L. Ickes and the New Deal. By Jeanne Nienaber Clarke. The Saving Remnant: Religion and the Settling of New England. By Cedric B. Cowing. Them Damned Pictures: Explorations in American Political Cartoon Art. By Roger A. Fischer. Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race: The Letters and Diary of Pierre Dessalles, Planter in Martinique, 1808–1856. Edited and Translated by Elborg Forster and Robert Forster. Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century. By Kevin K. Gaines. Love Across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis. Edited by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz and Kathy Peiss. Betrayed: A History of Presidential Failure to Protect Black Lives. By Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Champions of Charity: War and the Rise of the Red Cross. By John F. Hutchinson. Rivers of History: Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama. By Harvey T. Jackson III. Women of the Far Right: The Mothers’Movement and World War II. By Glen Jeansonne. The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States. By Michael Kammen. The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism. By Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh. Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War. By James M. McPherson. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. By Donald L. Miller. O Brave New People: The European Invention of the American Indian. By John F. Moffitt and Santiago Sebastian. Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman. Edited by David Morgan. Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619–1860. By Thomas D. Morris. American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture. By Joane Nagel. The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America, 1900–1945. By Thomas F. O'Brien. The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1962–1973: From Frondizi's Fall to the Peronist Restoration. By Robert A. Potash. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. By Jack N. Rakove. The Power and the Darkness: The Life of Josh Gibson in the Shadows of the Game. By Mark Ribowsky. Wild Bill Hickok: The Man and His Myth. By Joseph G. Rosa. Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies’Home Journal, Gender, and the Promises of Consumer Culture. By Jennifer Scanlon. State Trust Lands: History, Management, and Sustainable Use. By Jon A. Souder and Sally K. Fairfax. Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream Through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Money. By Robert Wuthnow. A Modern History of Southeast Asia: Decolonization, Nationalism and Separatism. By Clive J. Christie. Rescuing History From the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China. By Prasenjit Duara. Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts 600–1400. By Valerie Hansen. Technology and the Raj: Western Technology and Technical Transfers to India, 1700–1947. Edited by Roy MacLeod and Deepak Kumar. The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919–1937. By Brian G. Martin. Competition and Collaboration: Parsi Merchants and the English East India Company in Eighteenth-Century India. By David L. White. Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco. By Judy Yung. Criminal Churchmen in the Age of Edward III: The Case of Bishop Thomas de Lisle. By John Aberth Culture and Catastrophe: German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises. By Steven E. Aschheim. Jews for Sale? Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933–1945. By Yehuda Bauer. The Birth of Absolutism: A History of France, 1598–1661. By Yves-Marie Berce. Sonia's Daughters: Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Russia. By Laurie Bernstein. The Pilgrimage of Grace: A Study of the Rebel Armies of October 1536. By Michael Bush. European Jewry and the First Crusade. By Robert Chazan. Imperial Germany: A Historiographical Companion. Edited by Roger Chickering. The Empress Theophano: Byzantium and the West at the Turn of the First Millennium. Edited by Adelbert Davids. Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature. By Peter Berresford Ellis. Liberalism and Social Reform: Industrial Growth and Progressiste Politics in France, 1889–1914. By David M. Gordon. Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune. By Roger V. Gould. The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade. Edited by John Guy. The Spanish Economy, From the Civil War to the European Community. By Joseph Harrison. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477–1806. By Jonathan Israel. Volume I, The Oxford History of Early Modern Europe. Poverty is Not a Vice: Charity, Society, and the State in Imperial Russia. By Adele Lindenmeyr. The Druids: Priests of the Ancient Celts. By Paul R. Lonigan. Medieval Russia, 980–1584. By Janet Martin. Women in Antiquity. Edited by Ian McAuslan and Peter Walcot, with an introduction by Gillian Clark. Government and Institutions in the Post-1832 United Kingdom. [Volume XXXIV, Studies in British History.] Edited, with an introduction, by Alan O'Day. Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. By Norman Roth. The Palazzo Vecchio, 1298–1532: Government, Architecture, and Imagery in the Civic Palace of the Florentine Republic. By Nicolai Rubinstein. Festival of the Poor: Fertility Decline and the Ideology of Class in Sicily, 1860–1980. By Jane C. Schneider and Peter T. Schneider. Cambridge Women: Twelve Portraits. Edited by Edward Shils and Carmen Blacker. Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860–1940. By Simon Szreter. Mazarin: The Crisis of Absolutism in France. By Geoffrey Treasure. When Capitalists Collide: Business Conflict and The End of Empire in Egypt. By Robert Vitalis. Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years. By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982–1995. By George F. Kennan. Why the Allies Won. By Richard Overy.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: The Origins of France from Clovis to the Capetians, 500–1000. By Edward James. Queens, Concubines, and Dowagers: The King's Wife in the Early Middle Ages. By Pauline Stafford. Kings and Vikings: Scandinavia and Europe, A.D. 700–1100. By P. H. Sawyer. The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. By Brian Stock. The Industrialization of the Continental Powers, 1780–1914. By Clive Trebilcork. International Banking in the 19th and 20th Centuries. By Karl Erich Born. Translated by Volker Berghahn. Variations in Business and Economic History: Essays in Honor of Donald L. Kemmerer. Research in Economic History, Supplement 2. Edited by Bruce R. Dalgaard and Richard K. Vedder. The Rise of the International Organisation: A Short History. By David Armstrong. Essays On World War I: Origins and Prisoners of War. Edited by Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., and Peter Pastor. The Scottish Reformation: Church and Society in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. By Ian B. Cowan. English Radicals and Reformers, 1760–1848. By Edward Royle and James Walvin. A Great and Necessary Measure. George Grenville and the Genesis of the stamp A ct, 1763–1765. By John L. Bullion. Wars and Revolutions, Britain, 1760–1815. By Ian R. Christie. The Transformation of Intellectual Life in Victorian England. By T. W. Heyck. Patricians, Power, and Politics in Nineteenth Century Towns. Edited by David Cannadine. French War Aims Against Germany, 1914–1919. By D. Stevenson. De Gaulle. By Bernard Ledwidge. Essays on Culture and Society in Modern Germany. Edited by Gary D. Stark and Bede Karl Lackner. Secondary School Reform in Imperial Germany. By James C. Albisetti. Little Man, What Now? Der Stürmer in the Weimar Republic. By Dennis E. Showalter. Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth-Century Russia. By Barbara Alpern Engel. Vera Zasulich: A Biography. By Jay Bergman. Australia and Britain: Studies in a Changing Relationship. Edited by A. F. Madden and W. H. Morris-Jones with a Foreward by Sir Kenneth Wheare. Testing The Chains. Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. By Michael Craton. The Chia-ting Loyalists: Confucian Leadership and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century China. By Jerry Dennerline. Missionary Journalist in China: Young J. Allen and his Magazines, 1860–1883. By Adrian A. Bennett. Beautiful Merchandise: Prostitution in China 1860–1936. By Sue Gronewald. No. 1 of Women & History, Spring 1982. China Turned Rightside Up: Revolutionary Legitimacy in the Peasant World. By Ralph Thaxton. Kanazawa: A Seventeenth-Century Japanese Castle Town. By James L. MrClain. General John Burgoyne. By Richard J. Hargrove, Jr. Sovereign States in an Age of Uncertainty. Edited by Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert. Revivalism, Social Conscience, and Community in the Burned-Over District: The Trial of Rhoda Bement. By Glenn C. Altschuler and Jan M. Saltzgaber. Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region, 1607–1980. By David R. Goldfield. Gregarious Saints: Self and Community in American Abolitionism, 1830–1870. By Lawrence J. Friedman. Drift toward Dissolution: The Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831–1832. By Alison Goodyear Freehling. The Politics of Race in New York: The Struggle for Black Suffrage in the Civil War Era. By Phyllis F. Field. The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South. By Catherine Clinton. God and General Longstreet. The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind. By Thomas L. Connelly and Barbara L. Bellows. John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence. By Richard M. McMuw. Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia; A Splendid Failure. By Edmund L. Drago. Black Americans and the Evangelization of Africa: 1877–1900. By Walter L. Williams. A Southern Rebel: The Life and Times of Aubrey Willis Williams, 1890–1965. By John A. Salmond. Southern Businessmen and Desegregation. Edited by Elizabeth Jacoway and David R. Colburn (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Pp. x, 324. $27.50.) The Empire of the Mother: American Writing About Domesticity, 1830–1860. By Mary P. Ryan. Women and American Socialism, 1870–1920. By Mari Jo Buhle. Flawed Liberation: Socialism and Feminism. Edited, with an introduction and commentary, by Sally M. Miller. Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History. By Bettina Aptheker. Typhus and Doughboys: The American Polish Typhus Relief Expedition, 1919–1921. By Alfred E. Cornebise. The Great Kansas Bond Scandal. By Robert Smith Bader. The Rise of the Midwestern Meat Packing Industry. By Margaret Walsh. Crime of the Century: The Kennedy Assassination From A Historian's Perspective. By Michael L. Kurtz. Tucson: Life and Times of an American City. By C. L. Sonnichsen. Albuquerque: A Narrative History. By Marc Simmons.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: Women in Hellenistic Egypt from Alexander to Cleopatra. By Sara B. Pomeroy. Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family. By Judith P. Hallett. The Christians as the Romans Saw Them. By Robert L. Wilken. Les troupes auxiliares de l'armée romaine en Maurétanie Céarienne sous le Haut-Empire. By Nacéra Benseddik. The Roman Army in Britain. By P. A. Holder. The Governance of Anglo-Saxon England, 500–1087. By H. R. Loyn. Old Age in Preindustrial Society. Edited by Peter N. Stearns. TheBritish Empire,1558–1983. By T. O. Lloyd. Augustan England Professions, State and Society. 1680–1730. By Geoffrey Holmes. The Younger Pitt: The Reluctant Transition. By John Ehrman. Archetypes and Ancestors: Palaeontology in Victorian London 1850–1875. By Adrian Desmond. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. By Edward Norman. The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism. Edited by Margaret and James Jacob. The Making of British Colonial Development Policy, 1914–1940, By Stephen Constantine. Political Violence in Ireland: Government and Resistance Since 1848. By Charles Townshend. Republicans and Imperialists: Anglo-Irish Relations in the 1930s. By Deirdre McMahon. Vive le Roi: A History of the French Coronation from Charles V to Charles X. By Richard A. Jackson. Money and Power in Fifteenth-Century France. By Harry A. Miskimin. Church and Community in the Diocese of Lyon, 1500–1789. By Philip T. Hoffman. Historians and the Law in Postrevolutionary France. By Donald R. Kelley. The Conquest of the Sahara. By Douglas Porch. Crime, Madness, and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline. By Robert A. Nye. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and the Rise of French Republican Socialism. By K. Steven Vincent. The Casablanca Connection: French Colonial Policy, 1936–1943. By William A. Hoisington, Jr. Political Violence and the Rise of Nazism: The Storm Troopers in Eastern Germany, 1925–1934. By Richard Bessel. Women's Suffrage and Social Politics in the French Third Republic. By Steven C. Hause with Anne R. Kenney. We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886–1914. By Roger Chickering. Women, Nazis and Universities: Female University Students in the Third Reich, 1933–1945. [Contributions in Women's Studies, No. 54.] By Jacques R. Pauwels. Bread and salt: A Social and Economic History of Food and Drink in Russia. By R. E. F. Smith and David Christian. Understanding Imperial Russia: State and Society in the Old Regime. By Marc Raeff. The Soviet Union and the struggle for Collective Security in Europe, 1933–39. By Jonathan Haslam. China and the. Overseas Chinese in the United States, 1868–1911. By Shih-shan Henry Tsai. The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians. By Francis Paul Prucha. Liberty a Better Husband. Single Women in America: The Generations of 1780–1840. By Lee Virginia Chambers-Schiller. The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics. By Daniel Feller. Immigrants in the Valler: Irish, Germans, and Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1830–1860. By Mark Wyman. The Civil War Party System: The Case of Massachusetts, 1848–1876. By Dale Baum. Three Who Dared. Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner: Champions of Antebellum Black Education. By Philip S. Foner and Josephine F. Pacheco. War, Foreign Affairs, and Constitutional Power: 1829–1901. By Henry Bartholomew Cox. Industrialization and Southern Society, 1877–1984. [New Perspectives on the South Series.] By James C. Cobb. Children of the City, At Work and At Play. By David Nasaw. Actors and American Culture, 1880–1920. By Benjamin McArthur. Railroads, Reconstruction, and the Gospel of Prosperity. By Mark W. Summers. American Enterprise in Foreign Markets: Studies of Singer and International Harvester in Imperial Russia. By Fred V. Carstensen. The Stars and Stripes: Doughboy Journalism in World War I. [Contributions in Military History, No. 37.] By Alfred E. Cornebise. Hood, Bonnet Q Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921–1928. By Norman D. Brown. Dubious Alliance: The Making of Minnesota's DFL Party. By John Earl Haynes. The Great “Red Menace”: United States Prosecution of American Communists, 1947–1952. By Peter L. Steinberg. The Presidency of Harry S. Truman. [American Presidency Series.] By Donald R. McCoy. The Truman Scandals and the Politics of Morality. By Andrew J. Dunar. America's Forgotten Wars: The Counterrevolutionary Past and Lessons for the Future. By Sam C. Sarkesian. Economics and World Power: An Assessment of American Diplomacy Since 1789. Edited by William H. Becker and Samuel F. Wells, Jr.     

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The Presidency of George Bush. By John Robert Greene. Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870. By W. Todd Groce. Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President. By Allen C. Guelzo. Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator. By Arthur Herman. Native Americans and the Early Republic. Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. By Walter Johnson. Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character. By Roger G. Kennedy. The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control. Edited, with an introduction, by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball. Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture. Edited by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf. Once upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age. By Herbert Mitgang. From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England. By Margaret Ellen Newell. A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Frémont, and the Claiming of the American West. By David Roberts. Puerto Rico Women's History: New Perspectives. Edited by Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and Linda C. Delgado. American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding. By Gary Rosen. Forty-Niners‘Round the Horn. By Charles R. Schultz. The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930. By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. Translated by Leland Guyer. The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb. By John Ray Skates. A School for Politics: Commercial Lobbying and Political Culture in Early South Carolina. By Rebecca Starr. The World of Túpac Amaru: Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru. By Ward Stavig. Morgan: American Financier. By Jean Strouse. Patriotism, Politics, and Popular Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Juan Francisco Lucas and the Puebla Sierra. By Guy P. C. Thomson with David G. LaFrance. Facing the “King of Terrors”: Death and Society in an American Community, 1750-1990. By Robert V. Wells. Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. By John H. Wigger. Slaves, Freedmen, and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius. By Richard B. Allen. One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937. By Lynda S. Bell. Sun Yat-sen. By Marie-Claire Bergère. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Vignettes from the Late Ming: A Hsiao-p'in Anthology. Translated, with Annotations and an Introduction, by Yang Ye. Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories. By Wang Zheng. Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome. By Richard C. Beacham. Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain. By John Burnett. Death and Dying in the Middle Ages. Edited by Edelgard E. DuBruck and Barbara I. Gusick. The World of the Favourite. Edited by J. H. Elliott and L. W. B. Brockliss. Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe. By Clive Emsley. Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns, 1650-1730. By Paul D. Halliday. The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation. By Carol E. Harrison. Dictatorship as Experience: Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR. Edited, with an introduction, by Konrad H. Jarausch. Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe. By Richard W. Kaeuper. A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End. By Peter Kenez. The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium. Edited by Andrew Martin and George Ross. Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate. By Susan P. Mattern. Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise. By Viktor Meier. Translated by Sabrina P. Ramet. The Jacobean Union: A Reconsideration of British Civil Policies under the Stuarts. By Andrew D. Nicholls. The Sacred Isle: Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland. By DáithíÓ Hógáin. Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World. By Peter Padfield. Land Reform in Russia 1906–1917: Peasant Responses to Stolypin's Project of Rural Transformation. By Judith Pallot. The Anglo-Scots Wars, 1513-1550: A Military History. By Gervase Phillips. The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople. Second Edition. By Donald E. Queller and Thomas F. Madden. Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature. By Irina Reyfman. Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain. By Nicholas Rogers. The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany. By Ulinka Rublack. The Salian Century: Main Currents in an Age of Transition. By Stefan Weinfurter. Translated by Barbara Bowlus, with a foreword by Charles Bowlus. To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914. By David Wolff. Vectors of Memory: Legacies of Trauma in Postwar Europe. By Nancy Wood. An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in 20th Century Warfare. By Joanna Bourke. The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism. By Robert Alun Jones. Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling. By Granville Allen Mawer. Theories of World Governance: A Study in the History of Ideas. By Cornelius F. Murphy Jr. War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerka. Edited by Rurt Raaflaub and Nathan Rosenstein. Cassandra's Daughter: A History of Psychoanalysis. By Joseph Schwartz.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: The Past Recaptured. Great Historians and the History of History. By M. A. Fitzsimons. The Ideal City: Its Architectural Evolution in Europe. By Helen Rosenau. Third Edition. Roman Gaul: The Three Provinces, 58 B.C.-A.D. 260. By J. F. Drinkwater. Barbarians and Romans: The Birth Struggle of Europe A.D. 400–700. By Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson. City, Town, and Countyside in the Early Byzantine Era. [East European Monogaphs, CXX; Ryzantine Series, No. 1]. Edited by Robert L. Hohlfelder. Rupert of Deutz. By John H. Van Engen. The Kingdom of Leon-Castilla Under Queen Urraca, 1109–1126. By Bernard F. Reilly. The Holy Greyhound: Guinefort, Healer of Children from the Thirteenth Century. By Jean-Claude Schmitt. Translated by M. Thom. Seven-Headed Luther: Essays in Commemoration of a Quincentenary 1483–1983. Edited by Peter Newman Brooks (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.) Paolo Sarpi Between Renaissance and Enlightenment. By David Wootton. Maximilian I (1459–1519): An Analytical Biography. By Gerhard Benecke. Women of the English Renaissance and Reformation. By Retha M. Warnicke. Regional Transformation and Industrial Revolution: A Geography of the Yorkshire Woollen Industry. By Derek Gregory. Beyond Liberty and Property: The Process of Self-Recognition in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought. By J. A. W. Gunn. Britain, Europe and The World 1850–1982; Delusions of Grandeur. By Bernard Porter. Thomas Carlyle: A Biography. By Fred Kaplan. Man of Wars: William Howard Russell of The Times. By Alan Hankinson. Making Histories: Studies in History Writing and Politics. Edited by Richard Johnson, Gregor McLennan, Bill Schwarz, and David Sutton, with a foreward by Mary Jo Maynes. The French Council of Commerce 1700–1715: A Study of Mercantilism after Colbert. By Thomas J. Schaeper. Thomas-Robert Bugeaud, France and Algeria 1784–1849. Politics, Power and the Good Society. By Antony Thrall Sullivan. The Well-ordered Police State: Social and Institutional Change through Law in the Germanies and Russia, 1600–1800. By Marc Raeff. Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism. By Peter D. Stachura. The Nazi Machtergrezfung. Edited by Peter D. Stachura. Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933–1945. By Ian Kershaw. Nazi Propaganda: The Power and the Limitations. Edited by David Welth. Explaining Hitler's Germany: Historians and the Third Reich. By John Hiden and John Farquharson. The Balkan City, 1400–1900. By Nikolai Todorov. Society in Change: Studies in Honor of Béla K. Király. The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union: Economic Development in Austria-Hungary in the Nineteenth Century. By John Komlos. The Effects of World War I: The Class War after the Great War: The Rise of Communist Parties an East Central Europe, 1918–1921. Warsaw Between the World Wars: Profile of the Capital City in a Developing Land, 1918–1939. By Edward D. Wynot, Jr. Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 1917–1918. By S. A. Smith. The Sultan's Servants: The Transformation of Ottoman Provincial Government, 1550–1650. By I. Metin Kunt. The Afghan Connection: The Extraordinary Adventures of Major Eldred Pottinger. By George Pottinger. Peasant Movements in India, 1920–1950. By D. N. Dhanagare. Monopolists and Freebooters. The China Quagmire: Japan's Expansion on the Asian Continent, 1933–1941. Edited by James William Morley. The Great Leap Forward, 1958–1960. Archival Theory and Practice in the United States: A Historical Analysis. By Richard C. Berner. Black Personalities in the Era of the Slave Trade. Edited by Paul Edwards and James Walvin. Renato Beluche: Smuggler, Privateer, and Patriot. By Jane Lucas De Grummond. Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century. By Walter Licht. The Games They Played: Sports in American History, 1845–1980. By Douglas A. Noverr and Lawrence Ziewacz. Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics. By Leon Fink. The End of Arcadia: Gordon Browning and Tennessee Politics. By William R. Majors. American Profile, 1900–1909. By Edward Wagenknecht. Brandeis. By Lewis J. Paper. Crossroads of Decision: The State Department and Foreign Policy, 1933–1937. By Howard Jablon. G-Men: Homer's FBI in American Popular Culture. By Richard Gid Powers. The Limits of Liberalism. By Larry G. Gerber. Urban Workers and Labor Unions in Chile, 1902–1927. By Peter De Shazo.     

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Book Reviews in this articles: The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Appraisals. By Gertrude Himmelfarb. Hellenistic Religions: An Introduction. By Luther H. Martin. The, Age of Exubrance, 1500–1700. [Vol. 3 of The Making of Britain, 1066–1939. Edited By Andrew Wheatcroft.] By Michael Reed. Emergence of a Bureaucracy: The Florentine Patricians, 1530–1790. By R. Burr Litchfield Court and Country: Studies in Tudor Social History. By A. L. Rowse. Deliver us from Evil: The Radical Underground in Britain, 1660–1663. By Richard L. Greaves. Crown and Calumet: British-Indian Relations, 1783–1815. By Colin G. Calloway. John Fielden and the Politics of Popular Radicalism, 1832–1847. By Stewart Angas Weaver. The Mediterranean Passion: Victorians and Edwardians in the South. By John Pemble. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860–1914. By Susan Kingsley Kent. Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860–1912. By Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback. English Laundresses: A Social History, 1850–1930. By Patricia E. Malcolmson. Aneurin Bevan and The Mirage of British Socialism. By John Campbell. Diary of a Disaster: British Aid to Greece, 1940–1941, By Robin Higham. The Other Desert War: British Special Forces in North Africa, 1940–1943. By John W. Gordon. The Vision of Anglo-America: The US-UK Alliance and the Emerging Cold War, 1943–1946. By Henry Butterfield Ryan. Setting the Mould: The United States and Britain, 1945–1950. By Robin Edmonds. Philosophers and Pamphleteers: Political Theorists of the Enlightenment. By Maurice Cranston. Press and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France. Edited by Jack R. Censer and Jeremy D. Popkin. The Canada Merchants, 1713–1763. By J. F. Bosher. The Seven Years War and the Old Regime in France: The Economic and Financial Toll. By James C. Riley. Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World. By Jonathan Beecher. The French Generation of 1820. By Alan B. Spitzer. France, 1815–1914: The Bourgeois Century. By Roger Magraw. Workers on Strike. France, 1871–1890. By Michelle Perrot. Translated by Chris Turner. Paris Shopkeepers and the Politics of Resentment. By Philip G. Nord. Authority, Liberty and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe. By Otto Mayr. Democracy Italian Style. By Joseph La Palombara. The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780–1840. [Studies in Jewish History. Edited by Jehuda Reinharz.] By David Sorkin. Jews in the German Economy: The German-Jewish Economic Elite, 1820–1935. By W. E. Mosse. Germans in Brazil: A Comparative History of Cultural Conflict During World War I. By Frederick C. Luebke. Under the Shadow of War: Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and Marxists, 1918–1939. By Larry Ceplair. The “Hitler Myth”: Image and Reality in the Third Reich. By Ian Kershaw. Odessa: A History, 1794–1914. By Patricia Herlihy. Alexander Kerensky. The First Love of the Revolution. By Richard Abraham. The Birth of Stalinism: The USSR on the Eve of the “Second Revolution.” By Michal Reiman. Translated by George Saunders. Religions of China: The World as a Living System. By Daniel L. Overmeyer. Printers and Press Freedom: The Ideology of Early American Journalism. By Jeffery A. Smith. Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics. By Frederick J. Blue. The Anglo-American Crisis of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Times and America, 1850–1862. By Martin Crawford. The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison. [American Presidency Series.] By Homer E. Socolofsky and Allan B. Spetter. Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy. By Michael H. Hunt. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service: Middle-Class Workers in Victorian America. By Cindy Sondik Aron. Lucy Sprague Mitchell: The Making of a Modern Woman. By Joyce Antler. The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War. By L. F. Haber. FDR's Utopian: Arthur Morgan of the TVA. By Roy Talbert Jr. George C. Marshall: Statesman, 1945–1959. By Forrest C. Pogue. The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952. By Michael J. Hogan. Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits, and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies. By Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black. Independent: A Biography of Lewis W. Douglas. By Robert Paul Browder and Thomas G. Smith. Federal Law and Southern Order: Racial Violence and Constitutional Conflict in the Post-Brown South. By Michal R. Belknap. Women and American Foreign Policy: Lobbyists, Critics and Insiders. Edited by Edward P. Crapol. Arrogant Diplomacy: US. Policy toward Colombia, 1903–1922. By Richard L. Lael.     

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The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: Re Stafin Years. By Vojtech Mastny. History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. By Paul A. Cohen. Private Wealth and Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Life. By Judith Sealander. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. By Michael A. Morrison. The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820–1861. By Stephen B. Oates. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. By James M. McPhers The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906–1911: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origin of Ferninism. By Janet Afary. Drink, Power, and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c. 1800 to Recent Times. By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa. By Frederick Cooper. Religious Militancy and Self-Assertion: Islam and Politics in Nigeria. By Matthew Hassan Kukah and Toyin Falola. Family Identity and the State in the Bamako Kafu, c. 1800-c. 1900. By B. Marie Perinbam. Crisis and Commitment: United States Policy toward Taiwan, 1950–1955. By Robert Accinelli. The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism. By Stanley Aronowitz. In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico's Central America Policy, 1876–1930. By Jurgen Buchenau. Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost. Edited by Colin G. Calloway. A History of Chile, 1808–1994. By Simon Collier and William F. Sater. Labor Movements and Dictatorships: The Southern Cone in Comparative Perspective. By Paul W. Drake. On Constitutional Ground. By John Hart Ely. Shavetails and Bell Sharps: The History of the U.S. Army Mule. By Emmett M. Essin. To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740–1790. By Joan R. Gundersen. The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War. By Paul Hendrickson. The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830. By R. Douglas Hurt. Black Savannah: 1788–1864. By Whittington B. Johnson. The Making of Sacagawea: A Euro-American Legend. By Donna J. Kessler. The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West. By Frieda Knobloch. Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux By Robert W. Larson. A History of the Confederate Navy. By Raymond Luraghi. “We Are All Leaders”: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s. Edited by Staughton Lynd. One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866–1928. By Matthew J. Mancini. Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation. By Doug Owram. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. By Nell Irvin Painter. Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s. By David Plotke. The Strategy of Rhetoric: Campaigning for the American Constitution. By William H. Riker. Edited by Randall L. Calvert, John Mueller, and Rick K. Wilson. The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862. By Carol Sheriff. Jonathan Edwards's Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation. Edited by Stephen J. Stein. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. By Thomas J. Sugrue. Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatán, 1876–1915. By Allen Wells and Gilbert M. Joseph. The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies. By Betty Wood. State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina. By Richard Zuczek. Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent: A South Korean Social Movement. By Nancy Abelmann. Empire & Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780–1870. By C. A. Bayly. China in the 1980s: Centre-Province Relations in a Reforming Socialist State. By Shaun Gerard Breslin. The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific War. By Christopher Howe. Re-imaging Japanese Women. Edited, with an introduction, by Anne E. Imamura. A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941–1945. By Xiaoyuan Liu. The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937–1941. By Frederic Wakeman Jr. Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons. Edited by Tu Weiming. The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia, 1863–1917. By Bruce F. Adams. Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry. By Dieter Arnold. Ideology of Obsession: A.K. Chesterton and British Fascism. By David Baker. Peace, War and the European Powers, 1814–1914. By C. J. Bartlett. The Church for Others: Protestant Theology in Communist East Germany. By Gregory Baum. Europe under Napoleon, 1799–1815. By Michael Broers. Miners, Unions and Politics, 1910–47. Edited by Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, and David Howell. Russia through Women's Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia. Edited, with an introduction and chapter introductions, by Toby W. Clyman and Judith Vowles. The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic. By Edward ROSS Dickinson. The State against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in Central Europe. By Grzegorz Ekiert. Reinventing Germany: German Political Developments Since 1945. By Anthony Glees. Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea, 1854–1856. Edited by Sue M. Goldie. Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction, The Struggle for Modernity. Edited by Helen Graham and Jo Labanyi. From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790–1870. By David R. Green. The World of William and Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on the Revolution of 1688–89. Edited by Dale Hoak and Mordechai Feingold. Towns in Tudor and Stuart Britain. By Sybil M. Jack. A Medieval Mercantile Community: The Grocers' Company and the Politics and Trade of London, 1000–1485. By Pamela Nightingale. Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France. By Henry Phillips. The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia. Edited by Mark Pinson. Alfred Marshall's “Lectures to Women”: Some Economic Questions Directly Connected to the Welfare of the Laborer. Edited by Tiziano Raffaelli, Eugenio Biagini, and Rita Mc Williams Tullberg. Medieval Society and the Manor Court. Edited by Zvi Razi and Richard Smith. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. By Eric Rentschler. Reforming the Russian Legal System. By Gordon B. Smith. King or Covenant? Voices from Civil War. By David Stevenson. Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758–1834. By Charles Tilly. The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560–1791. By Dale K. Van Kley. The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866. By Geoffrey Wawro. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology. Edited by Paul G. Bahn. Fins de siècles: How Centuries End, 1400–2000. Edited by Asa Briggs and Daniel Snowman. Railways. [Studies in Transport History Series]. Volume I, edited by Terri Gourvish; volume II, edited by Geoffrey Channon. Ghosts: Appearances of the Dead and Cultural Transformation. By R. C. Finucane.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City. By Nicole Loraux. Translated by Alan Sheridan. The Avignon Papacy and the Crusades, 1305–1378. By Norman Housley. The Hussite Revolution. 1424.1437. By F. M. Barto?. Edited and translated by John M. Klassen. Edward Stafford: Third Duke of Buckingham, 1478–1521. By Barbara J. Harris. Social Mobility in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Europe and America in Comparative Perspective. By Hartmut Kaelble. Tories and Democrats: British Diplomats in Pre-Jacksonian America. By William H. Masterson. The Growth of Working Class Reformism in Mid-Victorian England. By Neville Kirk. Patrons, Brokers, and Clients in Seventeenth-Century France. By Sharon Kettering. The Third Republic Defended: Bourgeois Reform in France, 1880–1914. By Sanford Elwitt. The Military Life of Frederick the Great. By Christopher Duffy. Workers in Imperial Germany: The Miners of the Ruhr. By S. H. F. Hickey. A History of Ukraine. By Michael Hrushevsky. Edited by O. J. Frederiksen. The Day They Almost Bombed Moscow: The Allied War in Russia 1918–1920, By Christopher Dobson and John Miller. Utopia In Power: The History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present. By Mikhail Heller and Aleksandr Nekrich. Translated by Phyllis B. Carlos. Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825. [Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 126.1 By Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England. By Harry S. Stout. Anthony Wayne: Soldier of the Early Republic. By Paul David Nelson. Thomas Jefferson, Lawyer. By Frank L. Dewey. A Machine That Would Go of Itself. By Michael Kammen. Foreign Policy in the Early Republic: The Law of Nations and the Balance of Power. By Daniel George Lang. Toleration and the Constitution. By David A. J. Richards. Educating Republicans: The College in the Era of the American Revolution, 1750–1800. By David W. Robson. “Let the Eagle Soar!” The Foreign Policy of Andrew Jackson., By John M. Belohlavek. Indian Traders of the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Panton, Leslie & Company and John Forbes & Company, 1783–1847. By William S. Coker and Thomas D. Watson. A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics. By Amy Bridges. “The best school in the world”: West Point, the pre-Civil War years, 1833–1866. By James L. Morrison Jr. Abraham Lincoln and the American Political Tradition. Edited by John L. Thomas. The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln. By Mark E. Neely Jr. and R. Gerald McMurtry. Lincoln's Lee: The Life of Samuel Phillips Lee, United States Navy, 1812–1897. By Dudley Taylor Cornish and Virginia Jeans Laas. Chattanooga: A Death Grip on the Confederacy. By James Lee McDonough. The Legal Fraternity and the Making of a New South Community, 1848–1882. By Gail Williams O'Brien. The Party Period and Public Policy: American Polities from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era. By Richard L. McCormick. “The Last of American Freemen”: Studies in the Political Culture of the Colonial and Revolutionary South. By Robert M. Weir. Slavery and Race in American Popular Culture. By William L. Van Deburg. Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military. By Bernard C. Nalty. The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society. By Judith Stein. Killings: Folk Justice in the Upper South. By William Lynwood Montell. Reform in America: The Continuing Frontier. By Robert H. Walker. Railroads and the Character of America, 1820–1887. By James A. Ward. Memphis in the Great Depression. By Roger Biles. The US. Economy in World War II. By Harold G. Vatter. The Life and Times of James Willard Schultz (Apikuni). By Warren L. Hanna. Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West. By Joseph C. Porter. An American Odyssey: The Autobiography of Robert Brownlee. Edited by Patricia A. Etter. Land Fever: Dispossession and the Frontier Myth. By James M. Marshall. At Home on the Range: Essays on the History of Western Social and Domestic Life. [Contributions in American History, No. 108.1 Edited by John R. Wunder. Prime Cut: Livestock Raising and Meatpacking in the United States, 1607–1983. By Jimmy M. Skaggs. The Chief: Ernest Thompson Seton and the Changing West. By H. Allen Anderson. The Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness. By Michael P. Cohen. New School: A History of the New School for Social Research. By Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott. Imperialism and Idealism: American Diplomats in China, 1861–1898. By David L. Anderson. Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917–1921. [New American Nation Series.] By Robert H. Ferrell. The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility and Command. By Burton I. Kaufman. The Myth of the Revolution: Hero Cults and the Institutionalization of the Mexican State, 1920–1940. [Contributions to the Study of World History, Number 1.] By Ilene V. O'Malley. National Geographic: Behind America's Lens on the World. By Howard Abramson.     

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Books reviewed: Alan Bray, The Friend Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture and the Family K. J. P Lowe, Nuns’ Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter‐Reformation Italy Natalie R. Tomas, The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence Helen Berry, Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late‐Stuart England: The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury Mihoko Suzuki, Subordinate Subjects: Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form in England, 1588–1688 Patience A. Schell, Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City Susie S. Porter, Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879–1931 Nell Irvin Painter, Southern History across the Color Line Michael Zakim, Ready‐Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860 Sarah Watts, Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire Thomas Winter, Making Men, Making Class: The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877–1920 Gail Braybon (ed.), Evidence, History and the Great War: Historians and the Impact of 1914–1918 Fabrice Virgili, Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France     

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Books reviewed in this article: Wm. Roger Louis (ed.), More Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics, and Culture in Britain Matthew Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post–Cold War Era Mac Dixon–Fyle, A Saro Community in the Niger Delta, 1912–1984: The Potts–Johnsons of Port Harcourt and Their Heirs Steven Heydemann (ed.), War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East Linda Heywood, Contested Power in Angola, 1840s to the Present Dariush Zahedi, The Iranian Revolution Then and Now: Indicators of Regime Instability Rod Andrew, Jr., Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839–1915 Richard Archer, Fissures in the Rock: New England in the Seventeenth Century Gregg Cantrell, Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas Edward S. Curtis, The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis Stephen Davis, Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions William C. Davis, The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens Olivier Debroise, Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico David J. Eicher, The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War John S. D. Eisenhower with Joanne T. Eisenhower, Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I Victoria Getis, The Juvenile Court and the Progressives Fred Greenbaum, Men Against Myths: The Progressive Response John Hagan, Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada Hendrik Hartog, Man and Wife in America: A History Gerald Horne, From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War Against Zimbabwe, 1965–1980 Norris Hundley Jr., The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, A History Revised Edition Takeshi Inomata and Stephen Houston (eds.), Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya. Volume I, Theory, Comparison, and Synthesis William G. Jordan, Black Newspapers and America's War for Democracy, 1914–1920 Jeff Kinard, Lafayette of the South: Prince Camille de Polignac and the American Civil War John Lear, Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City John Lynch, Latin America Between Colony and Nation: Selected Essays John Allen Macaulay, Unitarianism in the Antebellum South: The Other Invisible Institution John Miller Morris (ed.), A Private in the Texas Rangers: A. T. Miller of Company B, Frontier Battalion Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars Roger H. Tuller, “Let No Guilty Man Escape”: A Judicial Biography of “Hanging Judge” Isaac C. Parker Bill Werber and C. Paul Rogers, III, Memories of a Ballplayer: Bill Werber and Baseball in the 1930s Jeffrey D. Wert, Gettysburg: Day Three Jian Chen, Mao's China and the Cold War Mary Somers Heidhues, Southeast Asia: A Concise History Philip C. C. Huang, Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China: The Qing and the Republic Compared Claude Markovits, The Global World of Indian Merchants 1750–1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama Kamakshi P. Murti, India: The Seductive and Seduced “Other” of German Orientalism Richard Sims, Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation, 1868–2000 Irena Backus, Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg J. H. Baker, The Common Law Tradition: Lawyers, Books, and the Law Noel Barber, The Week France Fell, June 10–16, 1940 Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher (trans.), The World of El Cid: Chronicle of the Spanish Reconquest Peter Biller, The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval Thought Constance Brittain Bouchard, “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia Roger Brock and Stephen Hodkinson (eds.), Alternatives to Athens: Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece Thomas S. Burns and John W. Eadie (eds.), Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity Norma Clarke, Dr. Johnson's Women Stephen Coote, Royal Survivor: The Life of Charles II Claire A. Culleton, Working–Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914–1921 Sean Dobson, Authority and Upheaval in Leipzig, 1910–1920: The Story of a Relationship Marilyn Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages Christopher Dyer, Everyday Life in Medieval England Anne E. Gorsuch, Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents Robert F. Haggard, The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism: The Politics of Social Reform in Britain, 1870–1900 Lawrence James, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India Roy MacLeod (ed.), The Library of Alexandria: Centre of Learning in the Ancient World Gary Marker and Rachel May (trans., eds.), Days of a Russian Noblewoman: The Memories of Anna Labzina, 1758–1821 Kostiantyn P. Morozov, Above and Beyond: From Soviet General to Ukrainian State Builder Peter Neville, Appeasing Hitler: The Diplomacy of Sir Nevile Henderson, 1937–1939 Gavriel Rosenfeld, Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich John H. Rosser, Historical Dictionary of Byzantium Edward Royle, Revolutionary Britannia? 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When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405–1433. By Louise Levathes. Agricultural Production and Indian History. Edited by David Ludden. The Japanese Kimono. By Hugo Munsterburg. Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road. By Sally Hovey Wriggins. Europe And Now My Soul Is Hardened: Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918–1930. By Alan M. Ball. Citizenship and Community: Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865–1931. Edited by Eugenio Biagini. Einstein: A Life. By Denis Brain. The Book of Cerne: Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth-Century England. By Michelle P. Brown. The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity. By Kate Cooper. Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic. By Anthony Corbeill. The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780–1914: Enterprise, Family and Independence. By Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt. Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany 1600–1987. By Richard J. Evans. The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War. By Ilya V. Gaiduk. Arming Against Hitler: France and the Limits of Military Planning. By Eugenia C. Kiesling. Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945–1958. By Paul W. T. Kingston. Denmark in the Thirty Years’War, 1618–1648: King Christian IV and the Decline of the Oldenburg State. By Paul Douglas Lockhart. Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. By David Nirenberg. Fifty Years Later: Antislavery, Capitalism and Modernity in the Dutch Orbit. Edited by Gert Oostindie. Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945–1995. Edited by Reiner Pommerin. The Emperors and Empresses of Russia: Rediscovering the Romanovs. Edited by Donald J. Raleigh, compiled by A. A. Iskenderov. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780–1914. By Richard Rodger. The War for the German Mind: Re-educating Hitler's Soldiers. By Arthur L. 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